Features
Development
Malawi’s latest floods a reality check
- Category: Development
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- Written by James Chavula
Recent spates of flush floods have sent shivers in flood-prone parts of Malawi—and government must make haste to avert a similar humanitarian crisis in the Shire Valley.
Fruits of volunteerism among the youth
- Category: Development
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- Written by GEORGE MHANGO
Rumbani Mkandawire, 24, a Blantyre-based University of Malawi graduate in agricultural economics has broken the jinx to have his own institution after gaining skills working as a volunteer when he completed his studies in 2010.
When Bwanje Valley Irrigation Scheme shines
- Category: Development
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- Written by GEORGE MHANGO
The flooding of cities and towns with farm produce such as beans, soya, groundnuts and rice from the revamped Bwanje Valley Irrigation Scheme in Dedza bears testimony to the importance of dry land farming.
The triumph of constitutionalism in Malawi
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
African democracy, history shows, is replete with instances of constitution with constitutionalism. But in 2012, Malawi—through managing quite a delicate succession in a peaceful way—at least, has proved to the world that history is not destiny. Ephraim Nyondo tells the story.
Saving environment through family planning
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
Winess Maunde—the 40-year-old Mwanza charcoal maker— and his 32-year-old wife Mercy have seven children. The eighth is underway.
Bingu’s death no end to fuel crisis
- Category: Development
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- Written by James Chavula
On January 1 2012, Malawians entered a third year of queuing for fuel at dry service station. This was probably a head of a protracted fuel crisis that nearly brought the country to a standstill and left it spiralling down the economic cliff Zimbabweans endured about five years ago.
Confessions of a charcoal maker
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
Why irresponsible charcoal making is a number one threat to the environment. I travelled to Mwanza and got dazzled how so many trees are sacrificed just to produce few bags of charcoal.
Neglected wives are GBV victims
- Category: Development
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- Written by Gospel Mwalwanda
Amid the flurry of excitement the new railway line project has generated in Malawi, Mphatso sits dejectedly outside her rented house around Zalewa Trading Centre in Neno.
Are Malawian youths fulfilling their role in society?
- Category: Development
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- Written by ephraim nyondo
They are supposed to be the bedrock where Malawi’s future should rest on. Youths make up over half of Malawi’s population, they are energetic and full of ideas.
Quality of education inciting exam malpractices
- Category: Development
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- Written by Albert Sharra
Atranscript contains one important message—one’s performance over a study period.
